Dalai Lama, Dave Matthews to visit SU for Oct. 8-9 event

The Dalai Lama will speak at Syracuse University this fall as part of a two-day world peace event that also includes a benefit concert featuring Dave Matthews and other well-known musicians.

The Dalai Lama will speak at Syracuse University this fall as part of a two-day world peace event that also includes a benefit concert featuring Dave Matthews and other well-known musicians.

The "Common Ground for Peace" forum will be held Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 8-9, a news release stated.

It will feature academic panel discussions for SU faculty and students, a public talk by the Dalai Lama and a concert at the Carrier Dome -- emceed by Whoopi Goldberg -- that will also be recorded for television, the release stated.

Ticket information and a full list of performers had not been released as of Monday.

The event is produced and sponsored by One World Community Foundation, an organization established by SU Trustee Samuel Nappi.

World "thought leaders" joining the Dalai Lama for the academic panels will include: founder and chairman of the Global Partnerships Forum Amir Dossal; Nobel Peace Laureate and former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei; human rights advocate Martin Luther King III; director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University Irshad Manji; foreign policy specialist and former head of the Central Intelligence Agency R. James Woolsey, Jr.; and former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young. NBC News national and international correspondent Ann Curry also will attend to moderate two panel discussions; one on the Arab Spring and one on shifting global consciousness toward peace.

The Dalai Lama will give a public talk at 7 p.m. Oct. 9, followed by the concert.

Ticket proceeds will advance international relief efforts and fund a new scholarship named for Bassel Al Shahade, the SU graduate student killed earlier this year in Syria while making a documentary film on the violence in his homeland, the release stated.